NOAH AND THE WHALE go for a Wes Anderson look in the video for the infectious "Five Years Time."  The song, which has been used in a Saturn commercial, appears on the band's long-overdue Peaceful, The World Lays Me Down album.

JENNY LEWIS is streaming her new Acid Tongue album with help from that Steve Jobs guy.

JULIANA HATFIELD: Largehearted Boy has her playlist for her memoir.  The playlist is a bit of a memoir itself, discussing her first kiss, "the most authentically tortured and anguished vocal performance" she ever witnessed, and so on.

FALL MUSIC PREVIEW:  Tracks from Bob Dylan, Lucinda Williams, Jolie Holland, Eagles of Death Metal and more are freatured in the latest All Songs Considered.

VAMPIRE WEEKEND have a new track, "Ottoman," a new track on the Nick & Norah's Infinite Playlist, streaming via the 'Gum.

THOSE DANCING DAYS bring the Swedish propulsive pop on "Home Sweet Home."

FRIGHTENED RABBIT vocalist Scott Hutchinson writes about the joys of the road for the Guardian: "I have many wonderful and happy memories already, such as the time we all drank petrol in Kidderminster to celebrate the birthday of Wayne Sleep. Then there was the night in the Nevada desert, when I allowed an angry scorpion to sting my penis repeatedly in an effort to make it look more like a Jesus..."

BEACH HOUSE: You can stream a new single, "Used To Be," via GvsB.

PORTASTATIC: Mac McCaughan talks to Billboard about the Band's 20th anniversary comp and the Merge Records box set.

KINDIE MUSIC: Children's-music blogger Stefan Shepherd compiles streaming tracks from They Might Be Giants, Central Services, and The Nields for All Things Considered.

CHARLIZE THERON swilled a Margarita and sang a karaoke version of Queen's "Bohemian Rhapsody" on The Tonight Show With Jay Leno. Let's go to the video.

CHARLIE SHEEN's pregnant wife, Brooke Mueller, has been discharged from the hospital after emergency gall-bladder surgery -- an operation that can be risky during the early stages of pregnancy.

SHARON STONE has lost physical custody of her 8-year-old son Roan.

MEL GIBSON bought the ocean-view home of sex addict David Duchovny and Téa Leoni for about 11.5 million.

MEG RYAN tells In Style magazine that ex-hubby Dennis Quaid "was not faithful to me for a very long time, and that was very painful. I found out more about that after I was divorced."  She also talks about her thing with Russell Crowe.

GWYNETH PALTROW launches Goop.

SAMANTHA RONSON, who is now publicly Lindsay Lohan's galpal, turned down a landmark lesbian watering hole in NYC seeking her DJ services for a charity benefit.

CLAY AIKEN is gay? Who'da thunkit?

IRAN: Pres. Ahmadinejad railed against "Zionist murderers" in a speech to the UN on Tuesday and vowed to resist American bullying and defend Iran's right to nuclear power. He repeatedly referred to what he described as Zionist control over international "financial and monetary centers," a widely discredited accusation that is often associated with anti-Semitism.  Meanwhile, back at home, Christian convert Ramtin Soudmand faces the death penalty after being jailed for the crime of 'ertedad' or abandoning the Muslim faith.

IRAQ: Facing a local population that has grown intolerant of AQI's indiscriminate acts of violence, many AQI operatives have gone underground - some have reportedly formed sleeper cells in the Iraqi security forces. Iraqi authorities are giving former militants, people who committed minor crimes or who are suspected of offences in the once insurgent bastion of Samarra a chance to clear their name if they turn themselves in. Sunni Arab Awakening Councils are showing signs of restiveness as their US-paid leaders face major changes, military sources say. The Long War Journal covers the Iraqi Security Forces logistical organization and development.

A PIG the size of a Shetland pony has been terrorizing a woman in a town in Murwillumbah, Australia.

LOLCATS: A hard-hitting investigative report in the business section of the L.A. Times.

A FAMILY DOG in Alabama brought home a child's foot, but searchers combing surrounding woods found no signs of any other remains and don't know where the child might be.

THE ZOOKEEPER who hand-reared Knut the polar bear and helped turn the animal into a global celebrity has been found dead in his Berlin flat.

GARZILLA: Chad Leonard went looking for catfish in the Georgia's Alapaha River. Instead, he caught a net full of teeth and temper, a state-record longnose gar.